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“Creative People Say No”
Technologist Kevin Ashton (via M.G. Siegler) on the power of saying no to things, excerpted from his book How To Fly A Horse: Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of…
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Notes from the OS X Yosemite beta
About a week ago, I broke one of my own rules and installed an early developer preview of OS X Yosemite on my regular, day-to-day, work-issued Mac laptop. I had previously promised myself I’d at least wait until the public beta, on the theory that no matter how many caveats Apple gives the million or…
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iA Writer Pro’s Patent Debacle
Last week, Oliver Reichenstein from iA — makers of iA Writer, a popular, lovely Mac app for writing Markdown text — made some comments on Twitter implying that he would go after other text editors for copying the signature “Syntax Control” feature in the new Pro edition of the app. In retrospect, I can’t understand…
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My TYPO Berlin Talk: “The Weight of the Web”
Slides from the talk I just finished presenting at TYPO Berlin 2013. I was a ball of jet lag and nerves, based on the live-tweeting from @mfacomdes I think I got across what I wanted to, and that the bits that were interesting and significant to me were to other people as well. Even though…
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Hi-DPI web typography on the Typekit Blog
A little something I wrote for the Typekit blog about high-density displays and their impact on readability. You could call this a preview for my talk at TYPO Berlin 2013 Touch, two weeks from tomorrow.
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“Why Nobody Can Copy Apple”
From Charlie Kindel: I assert there’s something else that makes Apple is unique amongst its (asymmetric) competitors (e.g. Google, MS, Samsung): It only focuses on one customer: The Consumer. In my experience, the behaviors and culture of an organization (large or small) that focuses on the Consumer as a customer is diametrically incompatible with the…
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Clay Risen on MakersGate
The best analysis I've read so far of Beam's announcement that they'll be diluting Makers Mark due to increasing demand. Makers is currently 90 proof, which is, like, the bare minimum alcohol content a bourbon needs to be taken halfway seriously in this world; the "new," "improved" formula will be 84 proof, which is more…
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U.S. Internet Users Pay More For Worse Service
Susan Crawford for Bloomberg: The Internet has taken the place of the telephone as the world’s basic, general-purpose, two-way communication medium. All Americans need high-speed access, just as they need clean water, clean air and electricity. But they have allowed a naive belief in the power and beneficence of the free market to cloud their…
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Google Kills Free Version of Google Apps
If nothing else, my blog post on configuring multiple Google Apps domains on a single account just got a lot more useful.
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Evan Gotlib Buys A Microsoft Surface
evangotlib: I bought a Microsoft Surface yesterday. Long story, don’t ask why, it wasn’t for me. This is the story of the purchase. It started with a phone call to the Microsoft Pop-Up store at the Shops at Columbus Circle… Evan: “Hi, do you have any Surface tablets in stock” Sales Rep: “Yes, plenty!” ……